10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2013
Now that passerine migration has largely wound down the attention of this New York birder has shifted to seabirds, shorebirds, and the occasional trip looking for breeding birds. It is a great spot for Horseshoe Crabs to spawn and lay eggs so it is no wonder that shorebirds congregate to eat those eggs.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2013
In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. If there is an entrance wound, there is an exit wound. Her abdominal wound looked good … or as good as a horrific wound could look. Luckily, this wound was not as severe. We had to find it. Her wings were perfect.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
They showed me their wounds! “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! They were able to untangle him, but they took a few good talon hits in the process. One of them put him in their motorcycle box and they all brought him to me. She even slept with it.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
All of the pairs that we monitor have lost either their eggs or juvenile birds to predation before they were fledged and are patiently sitting once again on a new clutch of eggs. This Olive Sea Snake was a very fat specimen and had a wound which didn’t look particularly fatal.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2013
They made scrambled eggs for the bait birds each morning and fed them special premium mealworms to help them ward off the cold of the mountain and the stress of their daily grid. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health. I salute you.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2018
Not wishing to disturb the bird, Kevin resigned to hold his reverent stance until the eggs she laid hatched and the young blackbirds fledged, which he did with stoic perseverance for weeks. According to one legend, Kevin was kneeling in prayer one day when a blackbird alighted on his outstretched hand and began to build a nest.
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